The SEQUOIA 2000 Project

I. I n t r o d u c t i o n The purpose of the SEQUOIA 2000 project is to build a better computing environment for global change researchers, hereafter referred to as SEQUOIA 2000 "clients." Global change researchers investigate issues of global warming, the Earth's radiation balance, the oceans' role in climate, ozone depletion and its effect on ocean productivity, snow hydrology and hydrochemislry, environmental toxification, species extinction, vegetation distribution, etc., and are members of Earth science departments at universities and national laboratories. A cooperative project among five campuses of the University of California, government agencies, and industry, SEQUOIA 2000 is Digital Equipment Corporation's flagship research project for the 1990s, succeeding Project Athena. It is an example of the close relationship that must exist between technology and applications to foster the computing environment of the future [NRC92]. There are four categories of investigators participating in SEQUOIA 2000: This research was sponsored by Digital Equipment Corporation under Research Grant 1243, DARPA Contract #DABT63-92-C-007,NSF Grant #RI-91-07455, and ARO Grant #DAAL03-91-6-0183